This story was originally published in The Star-Ledger on May 14, 1974. Morristown High School students returned to class following a one-week shutdown caused by a series of racial disturbances. The 1,900 white and 400 black students were checked by teachers serving as monitors at each of the six entrances set up by police to admit students. Full story »

This story was originally published in The Star-Ledger on May 10, 1974. Approximately a dozen Morristown High School students - both black and white - were named in complaints filed yesterday by the Juvenile Bureau of Morristown's police department for their involvement in the racial disturbances which have forced the school to remain closed since Monday morning. Lt. Robert J.... Full story »

This story was originally published in The Star-Ledger on May 9, 1974 Morristown High School -- the scene of two days of confrontations between white and black students -- will remain closed until Monday while school officials, teachers, students and community leaders strive to resolve the crisis. Dr. Harry W. Wenner, superintendent of the Morris School District, said yesterday his... Full story »

This story was originally published in The Star-Ledger on May 8, 1974. Morristown school officials last night told a meeting of more than 1,500 parents that students causing further disturbances at Morristown High School will be suspended from school, arrested and prosecuted. Mrs. Ann Kolb, president of the Morris District Board of Education, told an overflow gathering at Frelinghuysen School... Full story »

This story was originally published in The Star-Ledger on May 7, 1974. Some 75 policemen from a dozen municipalities were called to Morristown High School yesterday to separate several hundred white and black students who had confronted each other after a series of racial fights at the school. Police reported eight youths were treated at Morristown Memorial Hospital and released. Full story »

This story was originally published in The Star-Ledger on May 4, 1974. A series of confrontations between black and white students, including several scattered fights, brought dozens of policemen to Morristown High School yesterday afternoon. School principal Richard Hemmer closed the regional school 40 minutes earlier than usual and also canceled programs scheduled for last night and tonight. Full story »

Sharpening their attacks on Gov. Jon Corzine for the primary campaign to come, the four Republican candidates for governor came face-to-face for the first time yesterday. Chris Christie, Steve Lonegan, Rick Merkt and Brian Levine appeared at a candidates breakfast hosted by the Somerset County Federation of Republican Women, trading turns at the podium to road-test their stump speeches.... Full story »

PRIMARY OPPONENTS Rick Merkt: A Morris County assemblyman, who is also from Mendham Township and was Christie's running mate in a primary for Assembly in the 1990s. Steve Lonegan: The former Bogota mayor is state director of Americans for Prosperity, a taxpayer group. Ran unsuccessfully for GOP gubernatorial nomination in 2005. Full story »

The convicted Brothers Dritan ''Tony'' Duka, 30; Shain Duka, 27, and Eljvir ''Sulayman'' Duka, 25. They are ethnic Albanians born in the former Yugoslavia and living illegally in the United States since 1984. Eljvir is married to the sister of another suspect, Mohamad Shnewer. They attended Cherry Hill High School West. For years, neighbors complained about problems at the Duka... Full story »

January 2006: A clerk in a Mount Laurel electronics store calls police about a videotape that a customer wants copied. The tape includes footage of men firing rifles and shouting Islamic battle cries. The police contact the FBI. February 2006: Agents identify the men on the tape: five young Muslim immigrants who grew up in Cherry Hill and attend the... Full story »

Jurors in the Fort Dix terror trial asked three questions but ended their first day of deliberations yesterday without a verdict. The panel of eight women and four men spent nearly seven hours in closed-door discussions in Camden, weighing evidence and testimony from a trial authorities say showcased homegrown terrorism in the United States. In notes to U.S. District Judge... Full story »

Attorneys for four of the Muslim immigrants accused of plotting to attack Fort Dix urged jurors yesterday to acquit the men, pointing to what they contend were conflicting statements, contradictory witnesses and gaps in the FBI investigation that together, they said, constitute reasonable doubt. The jury of eight women and four men in Camden was expected to begin deliberating this... Full story »

Probe that began with sports will eye all Rutgers business An inquiry into Rutgers athletics will be expanded into a full-scale audit of the university's contracting and purchasing practices, the state comptroller said yesterday. In a letter to the university, the comptroller's office said it will be examining a wide range of issues, from the awarding of contracts to the... Full story »

After presenting eight weeks of witnesses, dozens of recordings and hundreds of transcripts, attorneys at the trial of five men accused of plotting a terror attack in New Jersey yesterday presented jurors with a simple decision: Was this a jihad or just talk? Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Hammer argued the former. In his closing argument, he walked jurors through dozens... Full story »

Jury convicts him of slaying, dismembering girl A Morris County jury yesterday rejected Jonathan Zarate's claim that he was psychotic when he brutally killed his 16-year-old next-door neighbor in Randolph more than three years ago, convicting him of murder and trying to cover up the crime. Laurie Parks described the relief of hearing Zarate proclaimed guilty of killing her only... Full story »

A special commission issued a stinging rebuke yesterday to Rutgers University officials for allowing the school's sports department to operate with virtually no oversight. Among the panel's findings: Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick "was too passive in exercising his authority." His "failure to exercise fully his ultimate authority" kept him in the dark on critical decisions by the athletics department,... Full story »